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Abbas Rana

Cabinet government is back ‘at the moment,’ but unclear if it will continue after Carney faces many ‘political potholes’ down the road, say insiders

Cabinet ministers who once appeared relaxed and complacent under Justin Trudeau are now 'on their toes' under Prime Minister Mark Carney, say some Liberal MPs. Prime Minister Mark Carney appears to be running the first cabinet government in about 40 to 50 years, but it’s unclear if it will continue in the medium and long term, especially if and when...

Steven Chase, Stephanie Levitz

Israel withdrawing defence attaché from embassy in Canada

Israel’s defence attaché is departing for home and will not be replaced at the country’s embassy in Canada – a sign, experts say, of an erosion of bilateral relations with Ottawa as ties remain strained over Gaza. Colonel Ilan Or is returning to Israel at the end of July, the embassy said. The responsibilities will be taken over by a...

Mike Le Couteur

Conservatives won’t be only political party to use AI: experts

The Conservative party of Canada may have been the first political party in this country to use AI-generated footage for an ad, but it won’t be the last according to experts. The party released a video on social media June 5 depicting people lining up at a food bank, losing their jobs and losing their homes with the punchline that...

David Thurton

Ottawa relaunches federal green home retrofit program in 4 provinces

New version directed at low- and medium-income households, including renters After a hiatus, the popular greener homes program is returning to Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Quebec and British Columbia, CBC News has learned. Environment, Climate Change and Nature Minister Julie Dabrusin and Energy Minister Tim Hodgson are expected to announce on Monday morning the federal program’s relaunch in the...

Bill Curry

Not all departments will enforce July 6 return-to-office deadline for public servants

The federal government is moving ahead with its July 6 deadline for public servants to return to the office at least four days a week, even as some departments have announced longer timelines because of a lack of available space. The federal government said in early February that as of July 6, all non-executive employees will be required to work...

Polls

David Valentin

Federal Tracker: Liberals Lead by 8 as Conservatives Gain Ground

The latest Weekly Federal Tracker from Liaison Strategies shows the Liberal Party, led by Prime Minister Mark Carney, holding an 8-point lead over Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives. Among decided and leaning voters, the Liberals stand at 42%, followed by the Conservatives at 34%, the NDP at 13%, and the Bloc Québécois at 6%.

Canada at 159: Majority optimistic of future as ‘united’ country, even as few believe separatist threats will pass

Canada Day is often a time to reflect on the country’s history, but this July 1, perhaps more so than others, will have Canadians pondering Canada’s future. National unity is set to be challenged during a pivotal fall with both a Quebec provincial election and Alberta referendum on the calendar. New data from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute finds most...

Opinion

Matt Gurney

We’re stepping up, we’re doing the thing, let’s do all the things

Canada is buying a sophisticated radar system from our friends in Australia … at a speed not seen in generations, and all that jazz. First, the news: Canada will spend $2.6-billion to procure an “over-the-horizon” radar system that will (hopefully!) allow anything approaching North America from the North—aircraft, missile, or drone—to be tracked at long ranges. The Australian system is...

Max Fawcett

The big-tech backlash is coming. Canada's leaders aren't ready for it

As a headline writer, you’re essentially in the business of getting people’s attention. The team at the Globe and Mail certainly hit that mark with a recent column titled “SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk the first trillionaire. Here’s how to properly hate him.” This spurred all sorts of noisy pushback from Canada’s tech elite, with Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke suggesting...

News

Marie Woolf

Heated Rivalry producer won’t send fleece to Carney until Online Streaming Act’s future is clarified

The head of the production company behind the hit hockey-romance series Heated Rivalry says he is holding off sending Prime Minister Mark Carney his own Team Canada-style fleece jacket, worn by one of the show’s lead characters, until the future of Ottawa’s online streaming law is clear and enacted “for real.”

Peter Armstrong

Has GDP rebounded?

It's going to be a blockbuster kind of week for the Canadian economy. The deadline to renew CUSMA will (almost assuredly) swoosh by on Wednesday, accompanied by a chorus of commentary and recriminations. Before we get there, we will get the latest GDP numbers for April on Tuesday. The economy has been struggling to find its footing. We experienced back-to-back...

Politician's Pen

Mayor Merlin Blackwell, Zoe Grams

It’s too hot, it’s Wildfire Season and it’s time to talk Budget 2026

Adam Chambers, Senator Percy Downe

Greater Transparency Needed at the Canada Revenue Agency

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Don Newman

Separation Summer? Carney’s Real Test May be FDI Fall

As we approach the Canada Day launch of summer, much of the attention on Prime Minister Mark Carney and the challenges facing his government is focused on the fate of the CUSMA trade deal and Alberta’s future. But there is another event on the horizon that could both deliver disproportionate impact on these ongoing policy and political files and provide...

Adam Radwanski

The Gordie Howe bridge is still closed and Trump won’t open it. What that says about “Fortress North America”

Donald Trump has made the Gordie Howe International Bridge into a big, beautiful monument to the futility of trying to jointly advance the economic interests of his country and ours. There are so many reasons for Canadians to be furious about Trump blocking the bridge’s opening: the pain to industries that need a faster crossing at the Windsor-Detroit border, the...

Campbell Clark

Finally, someone makes a decision about 24 Sussex

For more than a decade, a gray limestone-clad house overlooking the Ottawa River has served as a symbol of Canadian indecision and entropy. The prime minister’s official residence at 24 Sussex Drive had been left to the gnawing of rats because politicians didn’t have the guts to do something about it. Anything.

Political Pulse Panel

Are renovations of 24 Sussex overdue or over the top?

On Friday Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a national fundraising campaign for the renovation of the prime minister's official residence, 24 Sussex Drive. But is this project long overdue or just another opportunity for political posturing? Political insiders Greg MacEachern, Fred DeLorey and Anne McGrath speak to Power & Politics. The Political Pulse Panel also weighs in on the prime...

Lorrie Goldstein

Mark Carney lays groundwork for restoring relations with Iran

The fact the Prime Minister personally favours re-opening the Canadian embassy in Tehran was made crystal clear at a press conference last week

Conrad Black

The Carney government's Canada Day conundrums

Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke at Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto several weeks ago and denounced antisemitism and stated that, “Unity is not uniformity … our differences are strengths to be nurtured, not risks to be managed.” All Canadians of at least the age of seven have heard similar remarks by public figures, but they do not address the requirement...

Daniel Béland

Quebec’s Hot Political Summer

With Quebec’s fête nationale of Saint-Jean-Baptiste having launched the province’s pre-election political summer on June 24th, the phoney-war phase of mudslinging and burger flipping ahead of an October 5th election is now underway.

Andrew Coyne

To govern is to straddle: How is Mark Carney going to manage simultaneous, competing priorities?

To govern is to choose, the old adage runs. The old adage is wrong. More often, to govern is to straddle. Politicians are disinclined to choose by nature, of course: left unsupervised, they will nearly always prefer guns and butter to guns or butter. But many of the most important issues do not lend themselves to binary, either-or choices. The...

Susan Delacourt

Mark Carney’s Canada pitch to Alberta: Don’t mess it up

Every good political campaign needs a slogan. Mark Carney may have handed one to the team that will be fighting for Alberta to resist the separatist option this October: “Canada: don’t mess it up.” In a wide-ranging news conference on Thursday, Carney was focused on looking back over his achievements of the past year, but the questions from journalists, naturally...

Campbell Clark

High stakes and co-operation: Carney’s Alberta referendum message

Canada’s worth fighting for. Alberta does better together with the rest of Canada. And the Oct. 19 referendum in the province is a real choice that could bring on years of uncertainty for Alberta’s economy. None of those points, raised by Prime Minister Mark Carney at a press conference on Thursday, are groundbreaking. But together, the three parts are the...

Shannon Gormley

Trump can choose to wreck the U.S. economy — but he won’t stop there

What’s worse: That Donald Trump wants to break off trade with Canada, or that the U.S. president doesn’t want us to trade with anybody else? Never before as a country have we been so outraged into collective retaliation as we have by America’s rejection of us, its closest trading partner. But whatever we may think of America’s political trajectory, the...

Éric Blais

Here’s what’s wrong with Carney’s ‘Canada Strong’

Thanks to the Canada Strong Pass, Canadians can enjoy a more affordable summer. Valid from June 19 to Sept. 7, it provides free admission to all national historic sites and parks operated by Parks Canada, free or reduced admission at national and provincial museums and galleries and free and discounted travel with Via Rail.

John Ivison

Carney shifts to damage control on his condo developer bailout

Nobody could accuse Mark Carney of lacking intellectual suppleness. A week after enthusiastically endorsing the federal government’s involvement in moves to buy and convert up to 2,500 Vancouver condos that developers can’t unload, on Thursday the prime minister downplayed Ottawa’s role in the scheme. Article content At a press conference to mark the end of the parliamentary session, Carney said...

Andrew Coyne

Mark Carney might be used to being the smartest guy in the room. That’s no guarantee of success in politics

I imagine Mark Carney was something of an autocrat even in the cradle, issuing directives and insulting subordinates from the earliest age. “Yeah, I’m not feeling this WubbaNub. Got any others?” “This is not a helpful suggestion. Go back and rework it to a different nap time.”

Justin Ling

Mark Carney has a grand unifying theory of the economy. Unfortunately, he’s not acting on it

Six years ago, Mark Carney set out to discover his own grand unified theory of everything — or, at least, of why houses became so expensive. Then the governor of the Bank of England, Carney thought there could be a way to align government and bank policy which, borrowing a phrase from Sir Isaac Newton, would “protect the economy from...

Peter Donolo

Fortress North America would imprison Canada

They are the behemoths that dot the European landscape. Giant fortresses that have stood for centuries. They were built as defensive bastions to withstand invasions and sieges. Over time, the very isolation, impregnability and fearsome scale of these fortresses suggested an obvious – if less noble – secondary use. And names like Peniche Fortress, north of Lisbon, Marseille’s Château d’If...

Adam Radwanski

Canada remains vulnerable to surging world energy prices — and some of that is our fault

Inflation has surged to its highest level in years, Statistics Canada announced Monday, and we can rightly blame U.S. President Donald Trump and his war in Iran for the oil-fueled increase.

Robyn Urback

Carney’s ridiculous, myopic plan to bail out condo developers

It is patently unfair that the Carney government has announced plans to bail out condo developers in British Columbia, without even a mention of the struggling venture capitalists in Ontario, the hedge fund managers in Quebec, and the corporate CEOs in Alberta.

Tim Powers

Summer stakes are high for Carney, Poilievre, and Lewis

Parliament has risen for the summer, and it is yet again a key time for political parties to tend to all-important local political concerns that ultimately drive the successes or failures of Members of Parliament. For Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberals—except for flag waving around the World Cup and big hopes that Canada goes on a run on...

Andrew MacDougall

Starmer’s resignation is a cautionary tale for Carney and Poilievre

To be a successful leader in politics, you need a few things: a vision for the country, a plan to realize it and an ability to articulate why you are the right person to lead the journey. British prime minister Keir Starmer possesses none of these things. That’s why he’s been forced to resign his post. It’s expected he’ll be...

John Ivison

Carney’s condo developer bailout is a hazardous look

In economics, the concept of “moral hazard” describes a situation where an individual or institution is more likely to take reckless risks because they do not bear the negative consequences of those risks. It is an idea with which Prime Minister Mark Carney is very familiar, having been a vocal critic of the claim that banks were “too big to...

Susan Delacourt

Mark Carney’s flattery of Donald Trump is a game that needs changing

Donald Trump must enjoy what has now become diplomatic protocol for dealing with him on the world stage — namely, flattery and deference. Mark Carney caught on to it early, calling Trump a “transformational president” during his first White House sit-down with him more than a year ago.

John Ivison

Starmer’s downfall is a warning to prime ministers who don’t deliver

British prime ministers have for the past 65 years had their public image satirized in Private Eye magazine, an often-unflattering pastiche that generally finds its way into the mainstream culture. From the outset of his time in No. 10 Downing Street, Keir Starmer — who on Monday announced plans to resign — was portrayed as a dull, indecisive, overly cautious...

Robyn Urback

Is this the beginning of the end of the Doug Ford era in Ontario?

Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty was just one seat shy of securing a third majority mandate when he led his party to win the 2011 Ontario election. It wasn’t a great result – the Liberals won 18 fewer seats than they had the previous election – but it was still a win, and Mr. McGuinty’s approval rating was a respectable (for...

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Tonda MacCharles

Energy and trade are tightly bound as Mark Carney looks south — and west

On July 1, Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to mark Canada Day with a speech in Edmonton invoking national unity as Alberta weighs its place in Canada. It’s not only Canada’s 159th birthday as a nation, overshadowed though it may be by the twin threats of emboldened separatist movements in Alberta and Quebec.

Revellers drench Mark Carney with water as Toronto celebrates Pride Parade

Toronto's annual Pride Parade on Sunday drew throngs of rainbow-clad partygoers, including the prime minister. Mark Carney joined the parade briefly with Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow, shaking hands and taking selfies with the roaring crowds lining Yonge Street. As he marched, Carney goaded revellers wielding water guns to drench him. The prime minister stumbled back as he was sprayed with...

Jim Bronskill

Some Indigenous people wary of Order of Canada's "colonial symbolism": federal study

Indigenous community members have encouraged federal officials to reflect on how the Order of Canada can overcome its "deep colonial symbolism and associations," says an internal government presentation on efforts to modernize the Canadian honours system. The April presentation, prepared for the Order of Canada Advisory Council, says recent feedback indicates that accepting the honour "could bring feelings of discomfort...

Dylan Robertson

UN ambassador Lametti: Canada pushing for safety, equity in artificial intelligence

Canada is pushing for safe, equitable adoption of artificial intelligence at the United Nations, where Ottawa's ambassador says AI is a significant priority for his team. "AI governance is something that the UN has to do -- has a responsibility to do," David Lametti told The Canadian Press. "The UN remains critically important, (it) remains perhaps the only institution in...

Bill Graveland, Bill Graveland

'Turned into a symbol': Taber billboard focal point for Alberta separatist rally

TABER -- A pro-separatist billboard in a southern Alberta town of 10,000 was the focal point for a rally on Sunday calling for the province's independence.

Dylan Robertson

Poilievre asks Parliament to probe B.C. 'condo bailout' blocking 'a price correction'

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on Parliament to probe Ottawa's proposal to convert unsold condominium units in British Columbia into affordable housing. In a letter to the House ethics committee, Poilievre says a program to possibly help finance the purchase of 2,200 vacant condos amounts to a "condo bailout" for developers, bankers and investors. "Far from making housing more...

Touria Izri

Lawyers ‘shocked’ by lack of answers on ‘Lost Canadian’ citizenship recalls

Canadian immigration lawyers say they are in “disbelief” over how the federal government has dealt with a wave of citizenship certificate suspensions involving so-called “Lost Canadians,” and the lack of answers about why the recalls occurred.

Jeremie Charron

Poilievre calls for ethics committee to investigate B.C. ‘condo bailout’

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling for an “urgent meeting” of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics to investigate what he calls the “condo bailout” announced by the government earlier this month. In a letter to the committee chair obtained by CTV News, Poilievre accuses Prime Minister Mark Carney and his government of...

Stephanie Ha

U.S. envoy insists Trump ‘did not take aim’ at Canada with tariff policies, rhetoric

U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra insists U.S. President Donald Trump is not taking aim at Canada with his tariff policy and past comments about not needing anything from one of its closest allies. “We put tariffs on every country in the world. We did not take aim at Canada,” Hoekstra said in an exclusive broadcast interview with CTV News...

Abbas Rana

Carney should recruit star Quebec candidates to bolster federalist cause and prepare for potential referendum, say political players

With Quebec’s provincial election approaching this fall, and the Parti Québécois pledging a separation referendum if it forms government, political insiders say Prime Minister Mark Carney should recruit high-profile candidates for three upcoming federal byelections in the province to make the federalist case to Quebecers. “You can sort of pre-position a couple of people who are able to play a...

Darren Major

Why is it so much easier to ditch a prime minister in the U.K. than in Canada?

U.K. party policies play a factor, and MPs are more likely to rebel. Despite having nearly identical parliamentary systems, Canada has avoided the kind of prime ministerial parade that has befallen the U.K. in the past decade. Political watchers point to the Brexit vote as the key moment that led to half a dozen leaders occupying 10 Downing Street in...

James Paracy

‘We’ve been too dependent on the United States’: B.C.’s premier headed to China in hopes of expanding trade

B.C. Premier David Eby spoke with the media on Saturday before catching a flight to China in hopes of diversifying trade relationships. Eby said this trip, among others to Japan, South Korea, and Singapore, is part of a provincial goal to double international trade in the next decade. “We want to double our international trade beyond where it is right...

'Yahoo!:' Alberta and Calgary beef over Stampede noise quashed, premier and mayor say

A feud that heated up after spicy social media posts from Premier Danielle Smith and the mayor of Alberta's largest city about noise during the Calgary Stampede has been quashed. "This compromise provides greater certainty for this year's Stampede," Smith said in a Saturday morning post on X ahead of the 10-day rodeo and music festival starting on July 3...

Canada's first offshore wind farms move closer to reality as regulator clears bidders

Nova Scotia's offshore energy regulator has released the names of companies that have qualified to bid on building Canada's first offshore wind farms. The Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Energy Regulator identified six companies and two groups of companies that won approval after taking part a review process between October 2025 and January of this year.

Stephanie Ha

Canada’s possible mixed fighter jet fleet ‘would not kill Norad’: U.S. ambassador

U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra says when it comes to Canada’s ongoing F-35 fighter jet review, a potential mixed fleet will not put Norad in jeopardy. “One decision will not kill Norad,” Hoekstra said in an exclusive broadcast interview with CTV News chief political correspondent Vassy Kapelos. “What we’re always going to look for is what is the total...

Benjamin Lopez Steven

Former envoy to U.S. doesn't think 'serious Americans' will get involved in Alta. separatism

As Alberta pushes ahead with a fall referendum to decide whether an actual referendum on separating from Canada is worth the effort, Canada's former U.S. ambassador says she doesn't think "serious Americans" will get involved in the debate. "My understanding of this, when I left, was that there really wasn't a serious interest in interfering in this very important domestic...

Craig Lord, Sarah Ritchie

Earlier engagement could be key to avoiding labour disruptions: jobs minister

Federal Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu is looking for ways to turn down the temperature between unions and employers -- particularly when labour acrimony threatens to disrupt critical industries. Unions have seized on Ottawa's review of federal labour laws to make the case for the right to strike and reaffirm their opposition to government intervention in bargaining. Hajdu said in an...

Morgan Lowrie

More Haitians will try to come to Canada after U.S. court decision, advocate says

A Montreal-based advocate for asylum seekers says Canada should expect a new wave of Haitians trying to enter from the United States after a court decision allowing the Trump administration to end legal protections for migrants fleeing violence and natural disasters in Haiti and Syria. Frantz Andre says he knows of several people who are making the journey north from...

Murray Brewster

Canada puts $800M Griffon helicopter upgrade on hold over technical 'complexity'

The federal government has ordered life-extension work on the air force's aging CH-146 Griffon helicopters put on hold, CBC News has learned. The multimillion-dollar refit has run into technical issues, say sources who spoke on a confidential basis because they weren't authorized to speak to the media. There's concern among defence planners whether Bell Textron Canada Ltd., located out of...

John Paul Tasker

Liberals claim to be the party of law and order now. Inside the party's about-face on crime

The party long attacked for being soft on crime is overhauling criminal justice. After years of criminal justice reform that included a lighter touch for some offenders, the federal Liberal government has done an about-face and enacted stricter policies to tamp down on crime rates that have become a political liability in some vote-rich parts of the country. While much...

Alex Binkley

Food security includes preparing the farmers of the future

Damien Wood

Poilievre adviser’s agency registers as lobbyist in ruckus around Cowboys

An agency headed by a former key handler of Pierre Poilievre is a registered lobbyist in the loud fight over noise in Calgary. Jenni Byrne + Associates filed to the Alberta government on June 24 to be a lobbyist for Penny Lane Entertainment. Penny Lane operates the Cowboys Music Festival tent in west downtown. The public affairs agency’s filing was...

Daniela Germano

Canada, Alberta flags fly high at town parade during separatism debate

Paraders waved both Canada and Alberta flags high as many in a crowd cheered louder for tossed candy than politicians at the annual parade in the town of Ponoka. Tensions over Alberta's fall referendum on the province's place in Canada spilled over earlier this month, when another town's rodeo pulled the plug on its parade, citing online harassment.

Canada has no plans to open embassies in Iran or Venezuela, Anand says

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Canada has no current plans to open embassies in Iran or Venezuela. Anand says Canada relies on Italy to connect with Canadians in Iran but admits using an intermediary isn't the most efficient way of dealing with consular issues. Her comments come after a group called the Iranian Justice Collective said it had heard...

Catherine Morrison

Situation in Venezuela after earthquakes 'horrific': Anand

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says the situation in Venezuela following two catastrophic earthquakes is "horrific" and Canada will look to expand its humanitarian support for the region. The rare double earthquakes struck northern Venezuela 39 seconds apart on Wednesday, and officials reported Friday the death toll had risen to 920, with more than 3,360 people injured.

Bruce Anderson

82% would support or go along with the idea of private donations to fund 24 Sussex rebuild

In a Spark Advocacy survey in May (10th to 14th, 3450 interviews, nationwide online) of this year, we asked the following question about the idea of allowing private donations to fund renovations to 24 Sussex.

Spencer Van Dyk

Canada’s top soldier says missile technologies from Russia are the country’s biggest threat

Asked what she believes is the primary threat Canada faces moving forward, the country’s top soldier is pointing to missiles developed with new technology coming from Russia. “The threat to our continent is mostly related to the new missile technologies and the new vehicles of delivery that Russia is developing,” Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jennie Carignan told CTV...

Stuart Benson, Christina Leadlay

RSVPs less forthcoming for U.S. ambassador’s July Fourth bash this year

A confluence of poor timing, cross-border tensions, and competition with the Calgary Stampede could see fewer guests at the 250th anniversary party at the Lornado residence. Attendance at the U.S. Embassy’s upcoming Fourth of July party may not match the expected significance of this year’s 250th anniversary celebrations, as a figurative perfect storm of factors, including the event’s timing and...

David Baxter, Kyle Duggan

PM Carney says 24 Sussex to be restored with fundraising campaign, design competition

Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled plans Friday to restore the prime minister's residence at 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa through a national design competition and fundraising campaign. The prime minister said the winning design proposal will be announced by Canada Day of next year. Carney said the heritage building is a "symbol of the nation" that has fallen into a...

Marlo Glass

Critics caution against ‘complex regulator with two heads’ for social media, privacy laws

Privacy experts warn the Liberal government’s proposal to create a “super regulator” to enforce laws governing social media and privacy legislation risks weakening Canada’s privacy protection regime by reducing the role of the federal privacy commissioner.

US Poli

Steven Sloan, The Associated Press

Kara Swisher took Silicon Valley by force. Now she's eyeing influence in the 2028 campaign

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Kara Swisher is everywhere.

Linley Sanders, Simran Parwani And Amelia Thomson-deveaux, The Associated Press

Americans' pride in US history and democracy drops, and fewer are proud to be American, polls find

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans have grown less proud of their country's history or the way its democracy works over the past decade, according to a new AP-NORC poll.

Gary Fields, The Associated Press

Some paid the ultimate price to enact voting rights. Their survivors see America turning backward

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Holiday gatherings and major life events have come with an empty seat. Certain dates on the calendar meant time at a cemetery, standing before granite stones.

The Associated Press

US strikes Iran after Trump says ceasefire was violated

The U.S. struck Iran on Friday to respond to a drone attack on a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz, a provocation that U.S. President Donald Trump said violated the ceasefire.

International

Steven Chase, Stephanie Levitz

Israel withdrawing defence attaché from embassy in Canada

Canada has no plans to open embassies in Iran or Venezuela, Anand says

Catherine Morrison

Situation in Venezuela after earthquakes 'horrific': Anand

Dylan Robertson

Anand welcomes Turkish counterpart to Ottawa ahead of NATO summit in Ankara

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is meeting with her Turkish counterpart in Ottawa today, ahead of the NATO summit next month in Turkey's capital Ankara. Turkish Foreign Affairs Minister Hakan Fidan is visiting Toronto and Ottawa after pitching a strategic partnership with Canada. Turkey is Canada's military ally by virtue of its NATO membership and Fidan has echoed the Canadian...

Dylan Robertson

Carney says having no embassy in Iran puts Canada at 'a disadvantage'

As an Iranian diaspora group warns Canada could be looking to re-establish relations with Tehran, Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is "at a disadvantage" in countries like Iran where it lacks a diplomatic presence. Commenting today on the deadly earthquakes in Venezuela, the prime minister said that not having diplomatic relations with Venezuela's government makes it hard to respond...

Think Tank

Tobias T. Gibson, Patrick James

The case for a Canadian foreign intelligence service

Brenda Shaffer

Power and peril – How Chinese EVs, solar systems, and embedded technologies threaten Canada’s national security

China continues to find creative ways to infiltrate and influence the West. When low-cost Chinese electric vehicles entered Western markets, they were an immediate success and sales soared. Soon after, engineers discovered that Chinese manufacturers could surveil these vehicles (Financial Times 2026). Western engineers also found kill switches in Chinese electric buses that could be used to disrupt transportation (Associated...

Nino Melikidze, Steven Paolasini

How Canada’s skilled immigration system went off the rails – and how to fix it

Express Entry was never meant to be a Canadian skilled immigration program. It was supposed to be the sorting system layered on top of the existing federal ones.

Substacks

A collection of SubStack publishing within Canadian public affairs.

Dean Beeby

A jarring reality gap in access to information

The Liberal government in Ottawa is in the middle of a review of the Access to Information Act, required by law every five years. It’s being run by officials at Treasury Board Secretariat, a powerful central agency. So much is happening in Ottawa these days that the exercise is flying below the radar, like a ground-hugging drone.

Stéphane Dion

Three suggestions for the next version of the Parti Québécois Livre bleu

The Parti Québécois just released its Livre bleu, a 524-page document detailing its arguments in favor of Quebec’s independence. The separatist party is inviting Quebecers to provide suggestions for a second version, I’d have a lot of recommendations, of course - on all topics - but in this short text, I’ll stick to the parts where I’m specifically criticized by...

Dean Beeby

Canada's bad boy of freedom of information

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s own department, the Privy Council Office (PCO), has become the bad boy of freedom of information in Canada.

Podcasts

Why Canada struggles to stop the illegal wildlife trade

Billions of dollars of illegal wildlife parts get trafficked around the world each year. Think elephant tusks, rhino horns, polar bear pelts and even some rare plants, like wild ginseng. One of the countries caught up in these criminal networks is Canada.

The Long Game with John Manley

The rules of the game with Canada's most important partner have been tossed aside, and the outcome of the next round is as murky as Donald Trump's reflecting pool. Former Deputy Prime Minister John Manley joins Peter Donolo and Jeremy Kinsman to discuss Canada's leverage with Trump's America, from trade and Iran to the G7 and the Gordie Howe Bridge...

Love It or List It, 24 Sussex

It's a week that embodied Carney's "build, baby, build" mantra. We started with the federal government announcing it will push to have three northern projects fast-tracked under the Building Canada Act, and ended with a new plan to refurbish 24 Sussex Drive — the prime minister's official residence. But could this derelict building be too politically radioactive to fix? Hill...

Canada is no stranger to misogyny. Why haven't we changed that?

A more than 100-page manifesto filled with misogynistic and anti-police rhetoric was found in the hours after an Alberta man opened fire in a Montreal neighbourhood. Three people were killed, including an officer, the shooter and a civilian caught in the cross-fire. This isn't the first Canadian shooting attack rooted in misogynistic ideology, it succeeds the 2020 Nova Scotia shooting...